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Home Grown: Land Use Plannning Evolves and Adapts in Unlikely Corner of Wyoming

The county is solidly Republican and you’ll never hear a syllable of disregard concerning guns or property rights from any politician. However, when challenges arise, the county doesn’t seem to have much trouble asking for advice, even if it comes from, you know, the outside.

19Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Rejects Biggest State Coal Bid in Years

Saying the bid was below the reserves’ estimated fair market value, the agency nixed the offer from a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Peabody Energy Corp. of $362 million for slightly more than 400 million tons of Powder River Basin coal reserves.

1Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Coal to Asia Plan

A company is proposing to build a $600 million terminal in southwest Washington to export 44 million metric tons of Powder River Basin coal to Asia each year, a total that would make it the largest such facility in North America.

24Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Utility Seeks OK for Wyoming Power Plant Upgrades

At issue is whether the utility will be allowed to extend the life of the 700-megawatt plant near Kemmerer with upgrades, whose cost will eventually get passed on to consumers, to make sure the plant meets greenhouse gas emissions standards.

20Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Power to The People; New Interactive Site Features Cowboy State’s Electrical Generation

Among the offerings is a map of electrical generation facilities and an extensive database of each facility ranging from the Happy Jack windfarm in Laramie County to the 2-megawatt capacity Old Faithful fuel-oil facility in — you guessed it — Yellowstone National Park.

19Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Powder River Basin Coal to Ship From Gulf Coast

St. Louis-based Arch Coal, owner of a number of Powder River Basin coal mines, signed a deal with Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP to ship coal from the company’s mines to customers in Europe and elsewhere from the Gulf Coast

12Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM to Auction Off 400 Tons of Coal

The 3,200 acre tract is next to the North Antelope Rochelle Mine operated by Powder River Coal, a subsidiary of Peabody Energy. Last year, Wyoming coal revenues totaled $580 million.

28Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyo Infrastructure Authority Winter Meeting Set

Topics to be covered include Energy Gateway Project, TransWest Express Project, Zephyr Project and the Wyoming Colorado Intertie Project. The date is January 31 at the Snow King Resort in Jackson.

26Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Carbon County OKs $545M in bonds for Wyoming
Coal-to-Gas Plant

The commissioners voted to support the issue of $245 million in tax-exempt bonds, as well as $300 million in state industrial development bonds, to fund the plant. The project calls for a site near Medicine Bow by a subsidiary of
Houston-based DKRW Advanced Fuels.

20Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Coal To Natural Gas - It’s Happening Now
in the Power Industry

The most optimistic projections describe an abundant domestic energy source that will create enormous numbers of jobs and lead to cleaner skies. Nationwide, the electricity generated by gas-fired plants has risen by more than 50 percent over the last decade, while coal-fired generation has declined slightly.

16Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Duke-American Acquires Zephyr Project for Wyoming Wind Power

The newly formed joint venture says it is commited to using at least 2,100 MW of the transmission line’s capacity to provide wind power to California and the southwestern United States from the wind-rich areas of eastern Wyoming

4Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming’s Share of Federal Coal Lease Sales
Surpass $2 Billion

Thanks to Arch Coal’s successful $300 million bid in the Powder River Basin earlier this month,the state’s share of lease revenue jumped to $2.08 billion. What’s more, the lease of the federally-owned coal by an Arch subsidiary came out to $1.35 per mineable ton, a new state record.

29Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Coal Extraction Poses Climate Challenge for Obama Administration

Since taking office nearly three years ago, it has restricted coal-mining waste from being dumped into streams and imposed new pollution controls on coal-fired power plants. But on the fundamental question of whether the government should halt federal leasing, Obama’s answer has been: not yet.

26Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Environmentalists Renew Attack on Wyoming Coal That Fuels Plant

Their effort is directed at the potential expansion of a mine served by both the Union Pacific and BNSF Railway, and from which comes fuel for the Laramie River Station, a generating plant that is owned in part by Lincoln Electric System.

12Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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